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My First Cartoon? 1985

Humpaford the Duck, by Chris Onstad, age 10. Birthday Card on Piece of Paper, 8.5"x11". 

My father unearthed this little "piece of history" last Thursday while ...

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Assetbar Archive: Unusually Devastating Trip to the Bodega (pdf)

Of men who will dance under warm spring sun in freshly-knotted crowns of yarrow, this story contains none. 

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Todd (et al) Embroidered Apparel Coming Soon!

The above video shows just one of the dozens of new designs I've created for embroidering upon the upcoming apparel line.

Several months ago Achewood invested in a 12-needle digitall...

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0017 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 1

In which two men of decreasingly clear friendship hastily decide to accompany one another on a journey that may reach beyond the comforts of reason. Or will a starving and cash-strapped Ray simply ...

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Archive photo of computer keyboard belonging to Peter H. Cropes

"Taken May 2010; unknown source"

(I unearthed this specimen, which I believe has not appeared anywhere, while looking for some artwork of Nice Pete for the August 18, 2023 strip, #0016, i...

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Anatomy of an Abandoned Strip: 1/1/2006

If you would like further glimpses into the untidy mayhem of my comic workspace, please let  me know in the comments, or just hit this with "likes." Sometimes the marginalia of leftovers and u...

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Assetbar Archive: Nice Pete's Cricket Shrimp Horror Story (pdf)

What is it like to encounter Known Author Peter H. "Nice Pete" Cropes out in the high Sierra backcountry? Well, you had better not try to sell him any cricket shrimp, if you know what's good for yo...

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0016 - Return of Peter H. "Nice Pete" Cropes

Téodor, experimenting with risotto in a low-sided paellera, is interrupted by Peter H. Cropes, who is not sure how he should feel about a piece of packaging he encountered. 

In...

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Assetbar Archive: Ray and Beef's Oscar-Worthy Basketball Game (pdf)

This long-forgotten and tense piece by Ray describes the time he had to rely on Beef to play basketball with, as all his actual athletic friends were out of town. (Completists will reflect and agre...

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0015 - Beautiful Dreams

When cats consider cosmetic augmentation, they do not worry themselves with the bits and tips that matter so dearly to you and me. Chief among their notions of vanity are ears with a gently-rounded...

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Shangri-La Interview: Philippe + Lyle (pdf)

Beef is nowhere near getting done documenting the crew's personal visions of heaven, but he thinks he is going to take a breather on this subject for a few and switch to the topics of grut-...

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Lost Strip: 2009, Téodor Writing Lyle's Biography

I recently came across this fourteen-year-old artboard from March of 2009, and I can't find it anywhere in the published archive or via the dialogue search service, so I suspect it was considered "...

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0014 - Hidden Hills Fitness Center

[Vintage newsreel voice] Trips to the gymnasium typically provide ample jumping off-points for a variety of psychological airings-out; pair that with the increasingly hen-bitten disposition of the ...

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Fudge By the Gullet-Charge

When the exalted Scottish poet Robbie Burns lamented man’s inhumanity to man, he may have been referring to the tourist attractions in the Wisconsin Dells. Between the towering walls of souvenir ...

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Floating in Common Dander-Water With...AMERICA

Yesterday in the Wisconsin Dells, we went to Noah's Ark, which — given the preponderance of large white vans with "TRUMP*PENCE" and "MAKE THE MASS LATIN AGAIN"* bumper stickers lurking about the ...

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0013 - Romba Cinema: Mens' Podcasts

Decoder key: Exercise fads; UFC + bogus philosophy + targeted ads; endurance bores; bitcoin nonsense; Alex Jones. 

It occurred to me recently how much podcasts have in common with the AM...

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Shangrila Interview: Ray Smuckles (pdf)

The second in a series where Roast Beef tries to get his pals to describe their ideas of utopia and heaven. After last time's interview with Nice Pete, he gives himself softball with Ray. 

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How a Piece Gets Written

The above photos document a fairly atypical example of my process, equipment, and environment — but they make me look as though my technologically au courant ass* has gone all jet s...

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Brunching With the Buddhists

A specific subset of Lauren's family practices a specific subset of Buddhism called Shambhala. I couldn't tell you how Shambhala differs from whatever Siddhartha was doing under th...

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0012 - Catching Up With Fuck You Friday

Today we are taking good old Fuck You out for a spin to see how it's running. It had been a while, but it turned over on the first crank and buzzed off down the road like a bee! Singular of purpose...

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Summer Cooking With Téodor - Lamb Kofte Dinner Plate

Téodor’s Afternoon Min-It

or

Catastrophe Averted by Dude

Cooked and Documented by Téodor Orezscu

The compressor for t...

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Outtakes & Behind the Scenes: Strip 0011

A special installment just for the hardest of hard-cores, the Mega Chochachos of the Author's Tier! The elite of the cream of the ermine-trimmed among us. Thank you, sincerely, for...

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0011 - Achewood 2033 A.D.

The bitch in question is Captain Cragen, of course.

This strip brings up a timely subject. I am indeed gently lampooning the concept of artificial intelligence here, which reminds me of how m...

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Interview With Lyle - Emotion Eyes Special (pdf)

Have you been flummoxed that Lyle displayed emotion eyes recently, despite over twenty years of never doing that? In this candid and unprecedented interview, Lyle bares all! It turns out he has had...

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Let's Take Philosophy Back! (pdf)

In this groundbreaking treatise on reclaiming philosophy for people like you and me, we talk with a yippy and amoral Pomeranian, illustrate the ways in which Foucault would have been a lousy Thanks...

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Author’s Tier: Summer Recipes: Want Easy Sourdough Boules, Easy Smoked Ribs, and Extremely Difficult Corn Cob Ricotta?

Want some of my most carefully-tested, all-new recipe content up in here? Well, it’s coming all the same, so too bad and put that finger away.

Now that it’s warm enough to run my cheap-a...

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0010 - Return of Achewood, pt 8.

Next week's recipe is...chicken! (And remember: click to enlarge and see the crisp, full-resolution image.)

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Assetbar Archive: Tomorrow's Recipe is Chicken

This was in the old Acheworld/Assetbar folder with the date of April 28, 2009. So, I don't know why it has the date of 2005. Maybe you do. (Maybe you do?) Anyhow, there used to be a running "joke" ...

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Assetbar archive: Ray's Proof You Don't Have To Read Ulysses

Even Ray gets into the short, subversive piece game once in a while. This usually happens when he himself is honked on 80-brown (so don't go throwing bottles in glass houses, Mr. Smuckles). The ori...

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Assetbar archive: Téodor's Pope/Jesus Comparison

Roast Beef isn't the only one who enjoys a bit of subversive experimental publishing. Mr. Orezscu has compiled a number of short bits over the years — some scathing, others light in spirit a...

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